About Alasdair
Well I just took a peak at Chris’ page and he has been a busy lad!
Alasdair was born in the days of Yore, long before Chris. When modern words had a strange looking e on the ende to make them look olde.
His family agreed he was blessed with the perfect face for radio and at the age of 17 he made his commercial radio debut on independent local radio, Radio Tees. (No Chris, Marconi wasn’t the producer!) He was a member of the show team that won some Sony Bronze thing back then. He didn’t really dwell on it, but the others all seemed well chuffed.
Quite some time ago he graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree, yes Chris science with honours to boot, written on papyrus. That opened the door to all those ‘proper’ jobs that seemed so important back then. All the time developing a certain contempt for ‘management speak’.
In 2003, in a fit of boredem, he joined a hospital radio station, (No, I thought that as well but stay with me on this…), which allowed him to learn new skills with CD’s instead of the old cylinders and Tape spools. After a 12 module course from Pappa Smurf he was back presenting ‘on air’, despite Chris trying to sabotage his first show by deleting all the planned music off the computer.
After several months of abuse and taking stick about ‘local music for local people’ he finished in the top five in the country in some awards the station manager entered him for without telling him.
Since then he has appeared on radio in Australia, Community Radio in Co. Durham and also as a continuity announcer on TV in the USA.
As mentioned in show #9 we’ve started a list of corporate management speak below.
| Corporate Management Speak | |
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Beware corporate management speak. It exposes weak management and leadership by hiding behind meaningless babble. Feel free to email babble@aycliffepodcast.com with examples from your workplace and we’ll list them here. |
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| Phrase | Translation |
| Energise the cash in-flow | Increase sales or improve debt collection |
| Issue | They really mean problem. Come on, call a spade, a spade. |
| Let me reflect…. | OK stupid, I’ll explain again |
| Non Positive | Negative….. give me a break! |
| Blue Sky Thinking | My head is so far in the clouds what I’m about to say is complete nonsense. |
